It's dawn.

Li Xiao had already gotten up. He was afraid that he would lie down and wait for Wan Niang to wake up, so he would talk to him about taking a concubine again. His wife kept saying that she wanted to help take a small one all day long. This was also a worry of happiness.

After leaving the room, a maid had already come to cool the well water.

The pine wood washbasin has never been brushed with tung oil. It is purely log-style, heavy but simple.

The towel is even a pure white linen. Compared with the towels in later generations, the feeling of having sex with the skin was much worse.

Under Li Xiao's advice, the toothbrush has been upgraded from fresh willow branches to an advanced toothbrush with wooden handled pig bristles. Although the toothbrush made of this boar bristle is a bit hard, it is much more convenient than brushing your teeth every time you chew willow branches.

There is no toothpaste, but salt is used.

Sprinkle a little bit of fine salt and then you can brush your teeth.

This is a very luxurious behavior. Toothbrushes are not expensive, the key is that the salt is expensive. Nowadays, many people generally eat large pieces of granular salt, which has many impurities in it. The filtration and purification are not up to date, and the color is also ugly. The salt used by Li Xiao bought the best well salt, and then filtered and purified many times and decolorized, which is white and delicate, with a slight blue color.

Only aristocratic families can enjoy such salt. One liter of salt can be exchanged for at least one stone of rice. The salt used by Li Xiao to brush his teeth can be exchanged for a few stone of rice in a month, which shows how luxurious it is.

But Li Xiao didn't think anything. He always felt that it was worth it to improve his quality of life.

Money is just something that can be spent. If you make money, don’t spend it, will that person become a slave to money? As long as he doesn’t deliberately make extra money, it will become a perfume, just like the perfume he just developed, which is even more expensive. But when used like Li Xiao, it’s not stingy at all.

Rub the towel, first wipe the face, wipe off the foam after brushing the teeth on the face, and then Li Xiao picked up a piece of soap and started to foam on his hands.

This soap is also a product developed by the way when making perfume, which is used to replace the expensive bath beans at home.

The bath beans at home were bought at a large medicine shop in Chang'an. Not only is it expensive, but it is not easy to use. Li Xiao looked down on it. In his spare time, he studied soap. The soap was actually very simple and not complicated, but it took a little effort.

The cost is still very low, at least it is more expensive than the high-end bath beans mixed with many spices and medicinal materials.

You can also make some soap when making soap, wash your face, wash your hands and take a bath, and soap is used to wash clothes, which is very useful.

Apply soap bubbles on your face, apply and massage your hands on your face for about five minutes, and then wash off.

Suddenly, I felt light and refreshed.

When touching his face, which was not greasy at all, Li Xiao felt that the oil removal effect of this soap is really strong, but it seems that it is a bit too strong. It seems that long-term use will hurt your face a little.

After washing my face, the maid who was waiting next to me quickly picked it up carefully and put it in a specially made wooden box. There was also a special filter water under the box, which was indeed very practical.

"Alang, the government has sent Zhao Chiman's family here and waited for Alang to accept it." The housekeeper came over to report.

Because Dr. Zhao now has to manage the clinic on the street and the newly opened pharmacy shop. He is busy at both ends, Li Xiao found another person to serve as the butler at home.

After all, now the family is in great business. The new housekeeper is a distant relative of the Li family and a cousin of Li Xiao’s mother. Therefore, Li Xiao has to call him his cousin, whose surname is Qian.

He was in his forties and had read some books. His family was considered a landlord, but he was born in a villain and his family property had nothing to do with him. He used to work as an accountant in a shop in Chang'an.

Now that I have been to the Li family as a housekeeper, it is quite appropriate.

Lao Qian is not tall, but he is quite chubby and round, with a rosy face, so he is quite planning when arranging things.

"Is Brother Zhao here? Come with me quickly."

Li Xiao was released from prison yesterday, but Zhao Chiman was not released. The emperor ordered the entire Zhao family to be given to Li Xiao as a slave. Today is here to formally hand over.

At the gate of Lijiazhuang.

An official from Dali Temple led the team personally, and a team of officers and soldiers escorted the Zhao family 138, including men, women, women, and young and old. This time, Zhao Chiman's branch was uprooted. Although Zhao Gui, one of the Eight-Pillar Kingdoms, had many descendants, at least Zhao Chiman's branch has become a slave now.

Zhao Chiman and his family were tied with ropes and formed a long string.

"Eunuch Li."

The officials from Dali Temple smiled and stepped forward and bowed to say hello.

Li Xiao frowned. He knew that the other party was a polite name, but he really didn't like the name eunuch.

You are just eunuchs, your whole family is eunuchs.

"Just call me Master Li, have you sent me all the people?"

"All have arrived, Zhao Chiman's family is 138, and they are all here." The official took out a list and handed it to Li Xiao for inspection.

"I signed and stamped it on it, then the handover is over?"

"Yes, yes, yes, the 138 slaves signed and approved were all from Master Li. However, these people were all given by the emperor. Master Li must be kept under strict supervision and must not be lost."

Li Xiao quickly signed and sealed the handover procedures with a blank expression.

"Butler Qian."

"Alang, I'm here."

"Please invite this Wang Yucheng and others to the village to use tea and have a good treat."

"Okay." Old Qian smiled and stepped forward, invited the Wang Jiucheng and his party into the village.

Li Xiao waited for them to leave, stepped forward a few steps, and came to Zhao Chiman.

"Second brother, I'm sorry for you." Li Xiao stepped forward to help Zhao Chiman untie the rope. "At this point, I'm at home, so don't worry anymore."

Zhao Chiman looked a little depressed. He looked at Li Xiao and then at Lijiazhuang. This was a place that made him regret it.

If he hadn't come here, there wouldn't be the end of the Zhao clan being demoted to slavery.

‘Sanlang, I was sorry for you before and brought troops to the village, but you not only ignored your past grudges, but also treated me like this. I really don’t know how to express it.’

"Who can be without mistakes? It is good to be able to correct a mistake in a moment. The past things will pass. From now on, we can look forward and when we get here, the second brother will just treat him as his own home."

The Zhao family's 138 family were not all from the Zhao family. His parents all died early, so the elders in this group were his father's concubines, then his brothers in his generation, then his children and nephews. The rest were actually slaves of the Zhao family.

For those slaves of the Zhao family, there is nothing but a little nervous. Anyway, they are slaves everywhere, but they used to be slaves in the Zhao family, and the Zhao family rules were pretty good, and they treated their servants well. Now that I have come to the Li family, I don’t know how the Li family is.

But for the Zhao family, this was indeed a huge blow. In the past, it was a noble family, but now it has become a slave to others.

When they saw Li Xiao's attitude towards Zhao Chiman, they were surprised and full of joy.

After untiing the rope, Li Xiao arranged Zhao Jiman and his family into the village.

The former Zhao family servants had already arranged similar jobs for the Zhao family in the past. For the remaining twenty Zhao family members, Li Xiao naturally could not treat them as slaves, so he specially asked someone to clean up a yard for their family to live in.

"The house was also newly built, so I feel wronged that you will temporarily settle it there."

"Sanlang, don't be so polite. I am now the slave given to you by the emperor. Please arrange an errand for me."

'How can this work? You forgot that we had already drunk blood wine in Dali Temple before. We are brothers who have become charitable. When you come to me, you will be at home."

Zhao Chiman was both moved and guilty about Li Xiao.

"I don't have any other skills, but I just have the ability to ride and shoot. Unfortunately, I will never be able to go to the battlefield again in this life. Otherwise, I will drive a car and protect you in the future, which can be considered as the best of my ability." Zhao Chiman said.

Seeing that he insisted so much, Li Xiao was not easy to persuade him.

"Then let me give you a grievance first, and I will train the servants in our village to train them to ride horses, and then teach them some sticks, fists and feet."

"Yes." Zhao Chiman nodded.

"Arranging an errand for others." Zhao Chiman pointed at his brothers and his wives and concubines.

Li Xiao was helpless, this person was a bit too rigid and serious.

Finally, I had to make some simple arrangements, let Zhao Chiman's wife accompany Wanniang, and let his brothers follow Mr. Qian and others to do things, and reluctantly make arrangements.

Just now, Li Yuanfang is here.

Li Yuanfang is the deputy supervisor of Quanzhi Corn Supervision. As soon as he went to work in the yamen today, the Sinong Temple Minister asked him to talk to him and asked him to try the corn planting and arrange it.

But Li Yuanfang didn't know how to grow corn, so she had to come to Lanxi to find Li Xiao.

Seeing Zhao Chiman here, Li Yuanfang quickly called out to his second brother.

Zhao Chiman just nodded and walked aside.

"I'm waiting there, and I'll ask me if I have something to do, so I won't disturb you about the matter." Zhao Chiman left.

"Hey, Brother Zhao is a bit too old-fashioned." Li Xiao said helplessly.

Li Yuanfang looked at his back and sighed, "Brother Zhao was the most respected figure among the Chang'an Rangers back then, but he didn't expect that he would end up now."

"Are we still there? I wrote a memorial to plead for Brother Zhao yesterday."

'I wrote it too, but I guess this will have any consequences in a short time.'

The two chatted for several times, and Li Yuanfang explained his purpose.

"Actually, I have started to test the corn and have also written some regulations. You are here now, so I will help me."

"Has been planted?"

"I planted a little." Li Xiao pulled Li Yuanfang out.

Corn is not like rice. It can basically be planted anywhere, and it can be planted in spring and summer. Although it cannot be planted for two consecutive seasons, it is still possible to plant corn for one season and another season. Plant corn in the first half of the year and wheat in the second half of the year. If millet is planted in the first half of the year, then corn can be planted in the second half of the year.

Of course, corn can also be planted in those gaps, and can be planted in any field or on the edge of the yard.

Li Xiao took Li Yuanfang for a few steps, and the courtyard was ahead.

Under the corridor around the courtyard, there are small ridges of soil, and branches are inserted around it.

"Did you see the green seedlings? That's the corn seedlings, which have already sprouted."

On the small ridges surrounded by branches under the corridor, the small green seedlings are so tender and green.

"Is this corn seedling? Can it be planted in this yard?"

"Of course you can plant it, even on the windowsill. Just a little bit of soil is enough. Corn is the best one to plant." Li Xiao said with a smile.

It is of course good to plant in pieces, but in fact, it is also OK to plant corn on the broken land in the fields. At best, one acre of land can only plant about three thousand corn, but in any corner of the field, we can also plant three or five or even ten.

Accumulate small amounts into many, and it is also not a minority.

Of course, the biggest feature of corn is that it is drought-resistant and suitable for planting on mountain slopes with low fertility and lack of fertility.

“How many are planted in this yard?”
Chapter completed!